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1888-1!>04 she waH aMOciatti editor and editor of the Evangelist. Slie is the author of Telling Bible IStorics; Hebrew Life an«l Thought; The Cruise of the Mystery; und

score of other works.

Houghton,

Moses

Barrett,

soldier,

wuh

born in New York. In 1H61 he was captain in the third regiment Michigan infantry; and in 18(1;') wuh brevetteu brigudier-general of volunteers. He was honorably niu.Htered out in 1866. Houghton, Sherman Otis, soldier, lawyer, Ifgihlator,

York

City.

Ikii ii April 10, 1828, in New In 1846 he enlisted in the first regiment of New York volunteers for service

was

during the war Win

Cape

anmnd

regiment

Horn on

in

1846,

San Fran-

arriving; at

cisco 1847.

witii

He went with

.Mexico

.March 26, alter In*

Soon

went to

.Mexico,

und

paitici|Mted in numerous conllicts with the Mexican troops;

was promoted to -i lieutenancy, arul made adjutant of his com m.xnd. .Alter his return to Calitoinia he engaged in gold mining for a short time: rriMuined in San Jose during lH4i»-8«; thence to Los Angeles, where he has since resided. In lS5.')-.'>6 lie was nuiyor of San Jose. In 1871-7r» he was a representative from California to the forty-second and forty-third congresses. He stTVed two years as ordnance ofhcer on the stuff of Major-(U'n»-ral H. V. Halleck. with the rank of lieutenantcolonel. In 1860 he was admitted to the bar; has been leading counsel in numerous imp<u't.int cases involving titles under SpanIhIi iiinl Mexican grants in California. Houk, George W., lawyer, eongrcssman. 182.'), in CunilK-rland was born S««pt. county, l*a. For a while he taufiht sciiool.

He was a<lmitt«Hl to the bar in 1846; .iu practi"'d law in Dayton. Ohio. In 18.V2').3 he was elected t«» the Ohio stat* legis18611 lature; and ill was a delegate to tlic Charleston -Haltimore 1876 convention. In he was a delegate to the

iialional

republi-

can convention:

and

1884 was district elector on the democratic presidential ticket. He was elected to the lifty-second congress as a democrat; and was re-elected iv the lifty-third congress, but die. 18St4, in Washington, D.C. in

Houk, John C, lawyer, congreBsman, born Feb. 26, I860, in Clinton, Tenn.

was

He

was educated in the university of Tennessee; and in 1884 was admitted to the practice oi law. For four years he waa secretary of the state republican committee; and in 1884 was elected state treasurer. In 1889-93 he was a representative from Tennessee to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a republican. He resumed the practice of law; and in 1800-1000 woa a

member of the Tennessee state senate. Houk, Leonidas C, soldier, jurist, congressman, was bom June 8, 1836, in Sevier county, Tenn. He studied law when at work as a cabinet-maker; and in 1830-01 practiced his profession. In 1861 he en listed in the civil

war as a private

soldier:

and was promoted lieutenant and colonel. In I860 he was a member of the state convenlion which amended the constitution and provided for the reorganization ot the state

government of Tennessei'.

In

18<'7

lie

was

a judicial circuit judge of Tennessei'; and served until 1870, when he resumed the practice 01 law in Knoxville, 1 enn. in 1872 he was elected a member of ih'i Tennessee state legislature; and was an elector for the state at large. In 1870-03 he waa a representative from Tennessee »o the fortyiorty-seventh, forty-eightii, fortysixth, ninth, liflieth, fifty-first and lifty-second eongress' fi as a republican, lie died May 2.'>. 1801, in Knoxville, Tenn. House, Edward Howard, journalist, critic, author, was born Sept. 5, I8'J6. in Uoston. .Mass. In 1871-72 lu* was the utiing English teut-'ter in the university of -Japan: and established and conducted the Tokio Times in 1877-80. lie was the author o' Hie Simonoseki Affair; The Kagosim.i .AU'air; The .lapanese Expedition to Formosa; Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child of Japan; '

and

The

Stories.

Midnight

He

Warning,

and

Other

died in 1001 in Iapa:i.

House, Erwin, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 17, 1824, in Columbus, ')hio. He was editor of the Wejilern Christian Advocate. In 1840 he began to preach in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the author of Sketches for the Young; the Missionary in Many Lands; The Homilist; The Scripture Cabinet; and The Sunday School Handl>ook. He died May 20, 1875, in Cincinnati, Ohio. House, James, sohlier, was born about 1775 in Connecticut. In 1799-1822 he served in the United .States army. He was made

colonel of the first artillery in 1822, and i)re vetted brigadier-general in 1832; for ten yeors' faitliful service in one grade. He died Nov. 17. 18.J4. in Georgetown, D.C. House, James Alford, inventor, was born April 6. 1838, in New York City. In 1864 he became the mechanical engineer of the

Wheeler and Wilson manufacturing company of Hrid<,'eport. Conn. The button'iole machine made by this corporation was invented by him in 1S62; and the buttonhole attachment for their family sewing-machine